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The Grand Mansion Gate (2001–2003)

Da zhai men

2 seasons72 episodes47 min per episode★ 8.4 · 613 votes

• Drama

This Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Ching dynasty. The affairs of this family of doctors/pharmacists (which in those days were one and the same) are intimately linked with social upheavals of the time such as the encroachment of Christian missionaries and foreign imperialism as well as conflicts that inevitably emerge in a large upper class family. Comparable in scope and production value to such recent titles as "Downton Abbey", the lives and character of both masters and servants intertwine in plot lines that spans more than a generation.

First aired

April 14, 2001

Last episode

April 15, 2003

Network

CCTV-1

Country of origin

China